Yearly Archives: 2010

Category Social Welfare Issue Community Care Fund News Content The Community Care Fund held its first executive committee meeting yesterday. Several recommendations were made. They suggested allocating HK500 million in the first year for groups to apply on a project basis. Individual applications will not be accepted. And they also suggested the Hong Kong […]

Category One Country Two Systems Principle Issue Zhao Lianhai News Content Mr. Wang Guangya, director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, asked Hong Kong not to interfere with the mainland judiciary in the ways it handles the tainted-milk activist Zhao Lianhai. Asked if the joint letter from a group of […]

Category Heritage Preservation Issue Central Market Renovation News Content Urban Renewal Authority spokesman Lawrence Yau said the 70-year-old Central Market will turn into an oasis in the concrete jungle of Central though it may end up over budget a bit. He said strengthen the building’s structure to support an area of greenery on its […]

Category One Country, Two Systems Principle Issue CE’s duty visit to Beijing News Content Chief Executive Donald Tsang met President Hu Jintao yesterday at Zhangnanhai on the penultimate day of his duty visit to Beijing. Hu said the central government positively appraises the enormous work done by Tsang and the SAR government in the […]